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NP coordinator and provider (Former Employee), Columbia University,NY,NY – May 15, 2013
Pros: tuition reimbursement for college for dependents, fabulous conferences, working with world class providers
Cons: hospital and university practice management was challenging
Working in this academic practice with world class physicians and researchers afforded me the opportunity to learn high risk OB from the best. I was able to work with many different doctors, giving me access to different approaches to same problems. Our practice was evidence based and research was discussed regularly to best advise our practice. I appreciated – more... access to great weekly conferences from all fields and was inspired by the multidisciplinary approach to care. When I was transferred to perinatal clinic, the job became ideal as I was working with the population that I love. The clinic gave me contact with residents and fellows and allowed for more independence in daily practice. Daily I was required to triage patients needs,calls, complaints, questions, I also interacted with referring providers, acting as a sounding board for their questions and offerring expert advice regarding care. I scheduled appointments,provided direct patient care and generally kept the perinatal service running. – less
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Teaching assistant of Actuarial Model class
Teaching assistant (Former Employee), New York NY – May 7, 2013
Graded assignments and exams, recorded grades and reported class performance to professor
Held weekly office hours and tutor graduate students
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Excellent group of people and learning experience.
Research Assistant (Former Employee), New York, NY – May 5, 2013
Pros: great office culture and learning experience.
Cons: difficult to advance in a science field with an english degree, but that is no reflection on the job itself, but rather my education and its relevance.
This was a great job. I have no complaints. My bosses treated me with respect and their expectations were reasonable. I was able to accomplish goals as a team and work independently.
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Productive and inspiring working environment
Quality Assurance Laboratory Manager (Current Employee), New York, NY – May 2, 2013
Pros: great benefits
Cons: slow upward mobility
Able to see the transformation of a the clinical unit into a GCLP NIH supported entity
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Learned a lot in a short period of time. Apleasant place to work.
Buyer/ Inventory Control Coordinator (Former Employee), New York, NY – May 1, 2013
A typical day at work included: Cycle Counts, Heavy Vendor communication, Check my Buyers Que, Seek Pricing, Create Purchase Orders, Expedite Back Orders
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the benefits were fine but in the end i feel i was treated unfairly
Heavy Cleaner (Former Employee), New York, NY – April 22, 2013
the benefits were good i enjoyed my job, my co-workers, and my supervisors
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Pleasant collegiate atmosphere.
Senior Contract Officer (Former Employee), New York, NY – April 18, 2013
The best part of working for the university is the sense of satisfaction you get knowing that whatever job you hold you are contributing to the advancement of education, the spirit of tolerance, and the believe in the greater world community instilled in every student.
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cool and fun working place with very smart working staff
Porter (Current Employee), 39 Claremont ave New York – April 17, 2013
My day starts with picking up trash from each of the floors and delivering mails.
Sweeping the basement,cleaning the laundry room and touching up the lobby by cleaning the glass and polishing the brass on the doors and elevators.
Dusting the windows and mobbing the entire building among a few touch ups.
I have a very hard working co-workers that inspire – more... me a lot and whenever i need assistance they do not hesitate to help me so i cannot really point out any hard times.
The tenants are also very friendly and that makes me enjoy working under such a calm environment – less
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Oversee and manage production for first year students dining facilities
Executive Sous / Chef Manager (Former Employee), New York, NY – April 13, 2013
Pros: had the opportunity to meet really exceptionall gifted students and genuises
Cons: paid once a month
Colombia University first year dining facilities served 1400 students 3 times a day plus 400 faculty and employees.
We also supplied the campus with a catering needs and fuctions.
I assissted in organizing an over nght commissary operation which produced homeready meals, sandwiches and salads for the cafe's throughout the campus.
I created a kiosk of – more... wrapper sandiwiches which opened up in the third year dining hall along with pizza hut and taco bell. I sold 6,000 samdwiches opening week~~
I was promoted to Executive Sous Chef – less
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Very nice
Porter/Doorman (Former Employee), Manhattan, NY – April 8, 2013
Great place to work, so many opportunities for advance and growth, and an overwhelming amount of support from students, residents, and staff. beautiful place.
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Great place to work
Facilities Worker (Seasonal) (Former Employee), New York, NY – April 8, 2013
Pros: 2 hour lunches on payday
Cons: to much garbage during the holiday's
Cleaning and learning the equipment.Very helpful co-workers.
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Productive and busy place to work for.
Administrative Assistant (Former Employee), New York, NY – April 3, 2013
Pros: free lunch, access to library, flex time and working with various cultures.
Cons: healthcare and constant interruption.
I learned how to work with different levels of authority, provide their needs which was the most challenging part.

A typical day is preparing for a luncheon, calling vendors to make sure food and drinks are to arrive on time. Have payments available for guest lecturer. Schedule travel arrangements, hotel accommodations, Manage directors calendar and – more... provide assistance to students and faculty as they came through the door.

Most enjoyable were working with the students. Learning a new program, an example would be profcast. Profcast was used to record lectures for a science course and uploaded in the departments website. Coworkers were the first group of people I've worked with that worked as a team and followed through. It was a memorable experience. – less
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fast work pace, very independent
on site speacialist, assistant manager (Former Employee), New York, NY – April 2, 2013
Pros: vacation time and benefits and alot of room to grow
processing mail
dealing with clients needs
management was excellent
great relationship with coworkers
processing items in a timely fashion
the satisfaction of helping each customer and clients
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Good Place to Work, Always Challenging and Good Benefits
Business Manager (Current Employee), New York, NY – April 2, 2013
Pros: good benefits
Very busy, handling several tasks at once. Never boring, constant deadlines.
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Great place to work.
Bibliographic Assistant (Current Employee), New York, NY – April 1, 2013
Columbia is a universe unto itself, full of opportunity and room for growth.
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Valuable working and studying experience
Technician (Current Employee), New York, NY – March 23, 2013
Pros: a lot of free food events, flexible environment
Cons: n/a
I go to work at rush hour, which is usually 4-8pm. The professors here are nice. I learned a lot in Media technology. My co-workers are funny. The hardest part of the job is to finish a lot of work at a limited time. I like the learning environment in Columbia.
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Don't work for the CVN department
Distance Learning Coordinator (Former Employee), New York, NY – March 22, 2013
Pros: working for an ivy league school
Cons: academia has a lot of incompetence
Most departments are ok. However the CVN department is notorious for bad management and high turn over. Ask around.
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Student (Former Employee), New York, NY – March 20, 2013
Graduate Student in the financial engineering program.Highly quantitative background with studies in stochastic calculus, C++,
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Great place to work
Laboratory Technician (Former Employee), New York, NY – March 11, 2013
Great place to work with great benefits. Highly recommend to everyone.
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Officer of Administration -GH Sergievsky Center (Former Employee), New York, NY – March 8, 2013
Pros: payed time off
Great Place to work! Great Co-workers. Very enjoyable. Great healthcare. Clean atmosphere.
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